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Selecting text after TextBox.Focus() is executed

I see that the .Focus() method is new in .NET 2.0, which I think is
handy.

But is there a way to make text in a textbox selected when the focus
is set in it? This would be equivalent to calling .select() in
javascript.

Sep 13 '07 #1
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Use client-side JavaScript to handle the onfocus event of the text box and
call the select method.

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>I see that the .Focus() method is new in .NET 2.0, which I think is
handy.

But is there a way to make text in a textbox selected when the focus
is set in it? This would be equivalent to calling .select() in
javascript.

Sep 13 '07 #2

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